The digital pattern library (DPL) is a comprehensive new resource designed to offer tools and support to university colleagues designing or developing new web pages and other digital outputs.

Created and curated by the University’s digital communications team, the digital pattern library is an evolving set of design patterns underpinning a new digital approach for St Andrews, built collaboratively and tested with the people who use our products.

Its purpose is to ensure a consistent user experience, look and feel for all new digital products at the University of St Andrews. It follows the best-practice design principles of the digital communications team, is version controlled via GitHub and is platform agnostic.

Kick-off meeting

All developers (including external agencies or partners) who wish to use the DPL to build a product must first organise a kick-off meeting with the digital communications team. It is advisable to do this as soon as possible near the start of your project (within the appraise or define stages).

At this meeting, rules, responsibilities and sign-off gateways will be agreed. These include: